Whoaa!! I take back what I said earlier, that I agree with you on that. I was thinking the 69-70 GTXs.
1969 Plymouth GTX
1970 Plymouth GTX
1971 Plymouth GTX
Posted on 12/13/2020 7:03:31 PM PST by ETL
AutotopiaLA
"This is a cool old school simple badass muscle car. The owner had a numbers matching Plymouth 426 Hemi Belvedere GTX and wanted more power. So rather than swapping the motor he had the guys at Vintage Motorworks build it into a loud obnoxious badass street cruiser. This is Mopar in all its glory.
Sit back and enjoy the ride..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cboYj5-cso
I have fond remembrance of dual 4 barrel Hollys. God they sucked down the gas but it was worth it, gas was cheap then.
Two barrels open just to cruise, 4 barrels if in a hurry and step on the pedal and all eight barrels to haul your ass down the highway.
However, due to the extreme expertise of modern engineering, I have a 395 horsepower engine in my truck that averages 20 miles to the gallon and even better on the highway if I keep it below 70. It will haul ass if I want to. I have no need of this anymore, I am old.
I have fond remembrance of dual 4 barrel Hollys. God they sucked down the gas but it was worth it, gas was cheap then.
Two barrels open just to cruise, 4 barrels if in a hurry and step on the pedal and all eight barrels to haul your ass down the highway.
However, due to the extreme expertise of modern engineering, I have a 395 horsepower engine in my truck that averages 20 miles to the gallon and even better on the highway if I keep it below 70. It will haul ass if I want to. I have no need of this anymore, I am old.
Whoaa!! I take back what I said earlier, that I agree with you on that. I was thinking the 69-70 GTXs.
The Valiant was the Plymouth version of the Dart.
Great blast from the past ETL!
When cars were cars.
71&72 muscle was the best. 1978 boat cars were the best...
The first “muscle car” I remember seeing?.....hmmm. My dad and mom and I came back to the states after two years in London. My mom and I (I was 15, no license yet) were driving to New Mexico for my dad’s next post. We stopped in my mom’s hometown in nfw Pennsylvania. Not a MOPAR, but at the Ford dealer in that small boondocks town was a 63 1/2 galaxie 500 fastback. Black on black buckets 427 dual quad 4 spd. Yeah, I liked it. 😀
Oh, it was the summer of 63. DOH. Timeline clarification. 😯
Left a Scamp in a rest area on I-75 with windows down and keys in ignitior for 2 weeks. Seems nobody else wanted it either.
Some of those very early Mopars were god awful looking.
Especially this one...
Some of those very early Mopars were god awful looking.
Mopar had a couple ugly years after that (see above), then shot off to the moon in the mid-60s to very early 70s (70-72, depending on the model)
Too bad the new Dart doesn’t.
Not that those lines are grand, but the new dart looks like crap.
Being able to restore the system to "matching parts" would be amazing.
Mark
My childhood hero, Jimmy Addison and his "Silver Bullet" GTX gets the credit for that.
Jimmy owned this GTX. This GTX owned Woodward Avenue.
A friend from high school had a ‘67 Superbee. We carpooled to college for a year - the Superbee was constantly breaking down, but it made a nice vroom sound when it was running.
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